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TWO PROFESSORSHIPS IN TRANSLATION AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION, AGDER UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, NORWAY

Agder University College invites applications for two permanent positions as Professors in the Department of Translation Studies, Faculty of Arts at Gimlemoen Campus, Kristiansand. This newly-built campus is beautifully situated on the south coast of Norway.

At present, the Department of Translation Studies offers a three-year bachelor's degree programme in translation. The programme is currently under revision, and will be replaced by a programme in translation and intercultural communication in the autumn of 2006. At the same time, plans for a corresponding master's degree programme are being prepared.

The appointees will be full professors with research experience primarily within one or several of the following areas: intercultural communication, translation theory, terminology/language for special purposes, and/or audiovisual translation. Other relevant areas of research are corpus linguistics, language technology or text linguistics. For one of the posts, qualifications in English will be required. For the other post, qualifications in Norwegian will be preferred, but also other languages will be considered. Command of a Scandinavian language will be an advantage.

In addition to the academic qualifications, applicants should have relevant teaching experience as well as administrative and inter-personal skills.

If an applicant is unable to document formal teaching qualifications, the applicant may be appointed on the condition that such qualifications are obtained within a given period stipulated by the Faculty.

The employment policy of the Norwegian state aims at a balance in cultural background, age and gender that reflects the general population; women and persons from underrepresented minorities are therefore encouraged to apply.

The salary for a professor will be in the range of NOK 446,100529,100, from which mandatory state pension deductions will be made.

Applications should be submitted in English or a Scandinavian language and include a CV and certified documentation of degrees and testimonials in four copies, together with three copies of maximum 15 selected scholarly works, and a complete list of works.